Example sentences of "was more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this intervention was more than a defence of English interests in north-eastern France . |
| 2 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 3 | Achimota was organised on the lines of a British public school with the boarders grouped in ‘ houses ’ which were supposed to inculcate the team spirit : however , it was more than a boarding school . |
| 4 | This , however , was more than a slogan — it was a strategy . |
| 5 | So , by my twentieth gig I was playing the Rainbow in Finsbury Park with Cozy , supporting Suzi Quatro , and was more than a bit nervous . |
| 6 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 7 | He was n't very bright and he was more than a bit of a bore with it . ’ |
| 8 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 9 | There was more than a thread of incredulity in his tone . |
| 10 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , the state officialdom was more than a bureaucracy . |
| 12 | If Minton was striving to produce a figurative subject far more ambitious than the café scenes associated with the Euston Road School , he was again defeated by his inability to find a style that was more than a pastiche . |
| 13 | Fabia , although she would have liked to ask that question , knew that they were not well enough acquainted for her to ask , or pass any comment that was more than a surface one . |
| 14 | When he returned to Hawaii he was more than a hero , he was a saviour , a messiah . |
| 15 | To them she was more than a mass of steel and wood ; she had moods and feelings which they understood and to which they fitted their own . |
| 16 | But this was more than a confession . |
| 17 | Even The Times for a while in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution suggested that there was more than a grain of truth in the concept of a Jewish world plot . |
| 18 | Perhaps there was more than a grain of truth in the remark of one of his closest colleagues that Keynes ‘ had never spent the twenty minutes necessary to understand the theory of value ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes interviews can move in a different direction from the one you anticipate , ’ she said shortly , knowing that there was more than a grain of truth in what he 'd said . |
| 20 | The house was more than a building ; it was an art , a way of life . |
| 21 | This discovery of Frank 's atheism was more than a perturbation to Michael . |
| 22 | It was more than a kilometre around the islands from the lighthouse to the ship , and every wave , every rock was different and dangerous . |
| 23 | And there was more than a smack of sympathy for terrorism in a call by a leading Fundi for a ‘ broad show of unity ’ with a group which shot dead two policemen during a demonstration at Frankfurt airport . |
| 24 | For Nkrumah it was more than a nuisance because influential elements in Ghana were acutely sensitive to British comment . |
| 25 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 26 | ( It was more than a decade before Chantler 's ideas were fully accepted even within the Ministry . ) |
| 27 | He was more than a head taller than her , dark-haired and straight-boned . |
| 28 | The public , of course , had only the word of the press to guide them , and although there was more than a germ of truth in what the tabloids reported , this was by no means the first autumn in which the Prince had spent weeks without his wife and children . |
| 29 | Great diversity was important ; a city after all was more than a set of carefully structured spatial patterns , it was a social system where environmental disorder might have a place in reflecting cultural diversity . |
| 30 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |